THIEF CAMPED TWO WEEKS IN CITY PARK

H. L. Woodress Arrested at Colfax for Alleged Stealing of Grain Sacks

H. L. Woodress, who was arrested at Pullman last Friday on the charge of stealing a quantity of sacks and other plunder, agreed to return to Moscow and will stand trial on the charge. Woodress was arrested at Pullman last week by the town marshall when he appeared and tried to dispose of a number of grain sacks. Woodress was traveling in an auto and the car was loaded with a quantity of junk. The man was accompanied by R. L. Spoiler, who is still in the county jail, and refuses to go to Moscow until the Moscow officials secure extradition papers to take him out of Washington.

H. L. Woodress was accompanied by his wife who he had married at Dayton less than a month ago. Mrs. Woodress’ name before her marriage was Miss Ruth Roberts and she lived near Thornton. She stated that she and Woodress were married about a month ago at the Methodist parsonage in Dayton by the Methodist minister there. She saw Woodress’ advertisement in a Spokane paper for a "girl or young widow who likes to travel” and answered the advertisement with the result that they were married. They have been traveling about the country in their house on wheels. She believed her husband to be what he claimed to be in the advertisement which brought them together, a “floating horse trader,” and she never dreamed that the articles he accumlated on frequent trips away from their camp were stolen. She does not yet believe her husband guilty but lays the blame to his partner, Robert Spoiler, who is still in the county jail at Colfax and will fight for extradition. Mrs. Woodress is rather intelligent and nice appearing and claims to have taught three terms of school, although she does not appear to be 20 years old.

Among the junk captured by the Moscow officers were a number of saddles, suit cases and every conceivable thing that could be collected. Shipping tags containing" the name of a Pendleton junk dealer was also found in their car and the supposition of the Idaho sheriff is that Woodress disposed of articles at Pendleton which he could not sell at other points. A large quantity of the articles in possession of the two men has been identified by Genesse people as having been stolen from them.—Colfax Gazette.

The Woodress couple camped two weeks in the Pomeroy park, enjoying the hospitality of the city and the park attendant, Mr. Osborn. No charge of dishonesty is made against Woodress’ operations here.